1. Full name: Nguyen Do Hong Nhung                                         2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 28th February 1990                                              4. Place of birth: Thai Nguyen

5. Admission decision number: 3253/2016/QĐ-XHNV, dated on 30st September 2016.

6. Changes in academic process: change of dissertation title shown on decision number:  3122/QĐ-XHNV, dated on 29th November 2017.

7. Official thesis title: Family value orientation of youth

8. Major: Psychology                                                                     9. Code: 62 31 04 01

10. Supervisors: Assoc.Prof. Le Van Hao

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- On the basis of continuity, theoretical issues that were systematized from the studies conducted in Vietnam and in the world, the dissertation defined the concept of family value orientation of youth and its manifestations in 5 aspects: marriage in family; giving birth and child rearing; parent-child relationships; gender role in the family; family responsibility.

- In general, young people in this study have a trend to combine traditional with modern elements in family value orientation.

- Young people tend to be open-minded, favouring modern values more than value orientation related to giving birth and child rearing.

- In the relationship with parents, young people tend to follow traditional values, of which respects of the parents and conform or obey parent’s instruction and parent’s ideas in every issues of the life.

- In regard to gender role in family, the study participants tends to adopt quite modern values orientation according to which men and women share the same right and responsibility in making family related decision.

- With regard to the responsibility of family members, young people tend to uphold the traditional values: Filial piety is still a highly valued.

- Differences in family value orientation as expressed in varied aspects by demographic variables were identified. Young men interviewed tend to accept changes towards individualistic family value orientation more than young women.

- The different points of the findings as compared with the previous studies are the focus on the youth’s selection of family value orientations, obtained from a combination of quantitative and qualitative data

12. Practical applicability

From the research results, the dissertation proposed some solutions to young people in their family value orientation as required by social practice

- For young people: self-improving, raising awareness of the bio-psychological characteristics of youth and the importance of the value orientation in general and  the family value orientation in particular; Young people and families, schools and community need to work together in  providing  family value orientation activities for themselves.

- For families: raising awareness for family members about psychological characteristics in youth ; family value orientation of young people; the importance of family values education in general and family value orientation in particular; building a healthy family’s culture, using these valuable educational methods.

- For schools: raising awareness for teachers, parents and other social forces  of the youth’s  developmental characteristics; family value orientation of young people and the significance of  family value orientation education and educate family values for youth . Strengthening co-ordination between schools, families and society in educating family values, orienting family values for them.

- For society: ensuring the consistency, validity, and strictness of the law system in the family about youth  and bringing up the values for young generation; innovate  strategies, ways to approach to the problems, educating young people in  family-related laws , and orienting the values for young people.

13. Further research directions:

- Vertical research and cross-cultural research are about orienting the value of youth’s, being a next prospect with considerable purposes, comparing the changes of family values orientation, and cultural context of human being.

- The in-depth exploration of qualitative research such as case study and group discussion, which can explore these different ideas from those, who have more chance to express their opinions and ideas. It is expected that this may lead to results that represents Vietnam.

- Investigating factors (subjective and objective) that influence youth’s family- oriented values.

- Experimental study about family value -oriented measures and application for young people.

14. Thesis-related publications:

Nguyen Do Hong Nhung (2018). Awareness of youth and students about family values ​​in the context of current globalization.  Journal of Education and Society (6) 2018, pp.270-273.

Nguyen Do Hong Nhung (2019). Research on family values in modern society. Journal of Social Psychology (4), pp.78-89.

Nguyen Do Hong Nhung (2019). Family related values orientation of youth. Journal of Social Psychology (7), pp.69-81.